CBS Legend Walter Cronkite Dies...
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Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 92. Known for his steady and straightforward delivery, his trim moustache, and his iconic sign-off line -"That's the way it is" - Cronkite dominated the television news industry during one of the most volatile periods of American history. He broke the news of the Kennedy assassination, reported extensively on Vietnam and Civil Rights and Watergate, and seemed to be the very embodiment of TV journalism. "Cronkite came to be the sort of personification of his era," veteran PBS Correspondent Robert McNeil once said. "He became kind of the media figure of his time. Very few people in history, except maybe political and military leaders, are the embodiment of their time, and Cronkite seemed to be. "
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Comments (5)
I remember him from the show "The Twentieth Century."
Never saw that, just seen him on the CBS news. I thought he was on 60 min, But I could be wrong.
There's a ton of stuff I never knew about the guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite
Saw this this morning as well. Very important man.
This is one of my favorite Soundgarden songs, by the way.
I'm really into this album right now. I think this is one of my fave's from them, Bad Motorfinger being the other one I like just as much.
Agreed.